When a ballpark dies, and its concrete and steel are smashed to bits, it survives in memories: attending a first game there; smelling the mix of grass, hot dogs and beer; rising with thousands of others to watch a home run take flight; and catching a foul ball (finally!).
Who knows which of these acts will survive in memory?
The moments that survive in memory as emblems of youth always surprise you, because at the time you had no idea you were doing anything pivotal.
Whether he is made a saint or not, Black Elk's unparalleled life and powerful vision will survive in memory for a long time.
The scars of the civil war of 1936 to 1939 survive in memory, landscape and works such as Pablo Picasso's Guernica; even that vision of a horrific air raid has a dignity that enables it to avoid total bleakness.
Surviving in Memories The brothers' memory lives most powerfully in the people they saved, who are spread throughout the world and now number fewer than a hundred.
Fortunately, like Cadpig herself, the book turned out to be stronger than its unfortunate circumstances and survives in my memory and on my bookshelf still.
The destruction brought about by Genghis Khan survives in popular memory, but far more significant, these conquests were but the first stage of the Mongol Empire, the greatest continental empire of medieval and modern times.
The appearance of heroes in literature marks a revolution in thought that occurred when poets and their audiences turned their attention away from immortal gods to mortal men, who suffer pain and death, but in defiance of this live gallantly and fully, and create, through their own efforts, a moment's glory that survives in the memory of their descendants.
Although the poems evoke a sense of loss, they also hint at the completeness of Lucy's life she was raised by nature and survives in the memories of others.
